All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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